2009 CPAK PRESENTERS

Boris Fritz

Boris Fritz is a senior engineer at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems and founder of the national Nano-manufacturing Technical Group. He is also part-time faculty at Loyola Marymount University in the College of Science & Engineering. For 40 years Boris has been fascinated by ancient history and religions. He has a BA in Philosophy, a Master’s in Asian Studies, and has passed his Doctoral exams at UCLA in the History of Religions, with minors in the History of India and Sanskrit. Boris will be presenting at CPAK 2009 on “The Vedic Keys to History” and will offer his unique perspective on nanotechnology as an analogy for understanding the higher ages.

Kathryn Denning

Kathryn Denning is an archaeologist, anthropologist and assistant professor of Anthropology at York University. Her research examines scholarly and popular ideas about Others, their relationships to us, and how we can know them. The Others include the ancient (in archaeology), the animal (in zoos), and the alien (in SETI). Her recent focus has been on the scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence [SETI], particularly scientists’ conceptions of the alien Other and how scientists’ reasoning processes (e.g. use of Earth civilizations and historical intercultural contacts as analogies), impact the process, the technology and sites used to search the sky for signals, and ideas about how one might communicate with a radically different intelligence.Much of Denning’s research has addressed disparate ways of knowing, creating, and representing the archaeological past, and related topics in the philosophy of archaeology.

Marvin Mills

Marvin Mills is an architect, architectural historian and professor of history of architecture. He has advanced degrees from Columbia University in philosophy, architecture and history of architecture. He is the author of “The Origin of the Mosque of Cordoba, Secrets of Andalusia” and most recently taught at the University of South Florida in Tampa and New College in Sarasota. Marvin’s research leads him to believe the Mosque of Cordoba may date back in time to the Phoenician era of the 2nd to 1st millennia BC (far before its claimed Islamic roots) and before that to a “Golden Age” stretching back thousands of years when there thrived civilizations that attained high technological and esthetic levels which eventually transmitted their influences to Spain. This will be the focus of his topic at CPAK 2009.

John Dering

John Dering is a physicist and the senior scientist for research in Lasers and Special Projects at Scientific Applications and Research Associates (SARA, Inc.). where he specializes in technology for the generation and application of intense electromagnetic and acoustic fields and wave energy. He has made television appearances on The Discovery Channel, the History Channel, the BBC and ABC’s 20/20 and his work in acoustics has been written about in US News and World Report, Defense Weekly and Popular Mechanics. John is an avid researcher of ancient cultures and believes that some pre-Dark Age civilizations may have known of natural electromagnetism and other fundamental forces of nature that affect mankind over long periods of time. His talk will focus on this phenomenon, it causes and implications for the future.

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Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider is an educator and author of “A Beginners Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art and Science” including five accompanying workbooks and numerous articles concerning mathematics and education through nature, art science and philosophy. Michael has a B.S. in Mathematics from the Polytechnic Institute, a Master’s in Mathematics Education from the University of Florida and he was a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar in India studying ancient mathematics and sciences. He has worked for the New York Academy of Sciences and has held workshops for educators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York including “Science in the Art Museum” and “The Mathematics of Islamic Art”. In 1993 Michael designed the geometry harmonizing the statues on the south side of the central entrance to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He presently teaches mathematics at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Michael will be discussing the profound geometry of ancient Egyptian structures.

Paul Devereux

Paul is a painter and author of 26 books including, The Secret Language of the Stars, The Long Trip, Spirit Roads and Mysterious Ancient America. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Senior Research Fellow, International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group, Princeton; and an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network, Paul’s interests in archaeology focus on “cognitive” aspects, trying to “get inside” the prehistoric mind, and “the anthropology of consciousness”. This led him to co-founding and co-editing a new peer-reviewed, academic publication, Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture (Berg Publishers). He is currently a research affiliate with the Royal College of Art working on an audio-visual study of Mynydd Preseli, the source area in Wales of the Stonehenge bluestones (see the Landscape & Perception pages on this website). His talk at CPAK 2009 will be on the subject of archeo-acoustics.

Robert Temple

Robert is author of a dozen books, translated into a total of 44 languages, commencing with the international best-seller, The Sirius Mystery. He is Visiting Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and for many years was a science writer for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, and a science reporter for Time-Life, as well as a frequent reviewer for Nature and profile writer for The New Scientist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has been a member of the Egypt Exploration Society since the 1970s, as well as a member of numerous other academic societies. Robert will be discussing a number of new and startling findings concerning the Sphinx monument as reported in a new book, co-authored with his wife Olivia Temple, The Sphinx Mystery.